as in pornographic
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
inappropriately used office e-mail for an exchange of raunchy jokes
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Recent Examples of raunchy
On December 5 at Citizen News in Los Angeles, Rex kicked off a night honoring Jennifer Lopez, Denis Villeneuve, Selena Gomez, and more with a raunchy speech that put a darkly comedic speed on current Hollywood instability.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
Most fans found the singer’s raunchy roulette amusing.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Final verdict: The Merry Gentlemen is a bit more raunchy than the rest of the movie’s on this list, thanks to all the shirtless pelvic thrusting.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
Key Background Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally made headlines for the raunchy jokes and extreme comments made by some of the nearly 30 speakers who took the stage before Trump—though Hinchcliffe’s comment about Puerto Rico, and another joke about Latinos, received the most criticism.
—Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
Most fans found the singer’s raunchy roulette amusing.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Final verdict: The Merry Gentlemen is a bit more raunchy than the rest of the movie’s on this list, thanks to all the shirtless pelvic thrusting.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
Key Background Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally made headlines for the raunchy jokes and extreme comments made by some of the nearly 30 speakers who took the stage before Trump—though Hinchcliffe’s comment about Puerto Rico, and another joke about Latinos, received the most criticism.
—Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Of course, obscene content has been censored, and services that clearly broke intellectual property laws, like Napster, WikiLeaks, and The Pirate Bay were shuttered, but, for the average person, the internet remained broadly open in the United States.Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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There have now been 21 fines due to obscene gestures this season.Ryan Morik, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine was far more graphic and vulgar than previous Marvel Studios projects — but one of its especially dirty lines didn't make the cut.Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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With Election Day on the horizon, Elon Musk is leaning into violent and vulgar rhetoric.Bruna Horvath, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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At its simplest, while tracking cookies are a nasty underpin to the internet, they can be seen and controlled, whether by those website popups or electing to use some form of private browsing that blocks such cookies altogether.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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But the only bacteria raw or pasteurized milk contain are the nasty kind—salmonella, campylobacter and the like, according to the FDA.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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From savory breads and rolls for sandwiches and soup-sopping to decadent sweet loaves and rolls for breakfast or dessert, the easy recipes give you a break while your mixer does the dirty work.Josh Miller, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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The Romans liked to give the appearance of civilized rule by getting local thugs to do their dirty work.N.T. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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After Russian ship docks to space station, astronauts report a foul smell Around these parts, the usual response to a foul smell is a glance in the dog's direction.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2024
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were met with a bizarre and unwelcome arrival when a Russian spacecraft docked: a foul smell.Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
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My father was living alone in that dark, filthy room like an old animal wallowing in its own excrement.Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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Down and out in Tinseltown, where white glistening snow turns to filthy slush.Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Raunchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raunchy. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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